Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-10-07
NEWS SUMMARY.


Secretary Fairchild has resumed active
control Of the treasury.
Oscar Neebe, anarchist. was taken %
Joliet prison on the 2jth ult.
Dr. hcGlynn has Teen addressing a Neal
Dow temperance organization.
Alexander b. Webb of Missouri has been
appointed T. ). counsel az Manila
Gen j. T. Rae of Minneapolis is the new
eommanderin chief of the G.. a. Il.
Prairie fires i'm the vicinity OF Winnipeg
are causing settlers considerable trouble.
The tobacco crop Of IndiIna is only one
third OF crop lecausc of drouth and
frost.
Oscar Neebe. tho anarchist. has been put
to work in the harness shop in Joliet
prison.
over $.7Oo0oO has been put into circu-
lation by the treasury in the past few
months.
Nearly $1,000 bushels of wheat in Wheat
land, Dakota, were destroyed by fire the
other day.
An election was held in Tennessee on the
9th ult. The prohibition amendment was
defeated 10y $1,000
Edward L. Dunn, paymastergeneral OF
the United States navy (retired) died in
Baltimore recently.
Something over 5000 names have been
/ signed to the petitions sent to Gov Ogles-
by in behalf of the anarchists.
Michael Davitt the distinguished Irish
agitator, arrived in New York on the lst
inst lie was warmly welcomed.
Henry Beer, Bohemian stone cutter of
Lincoln. Neb. shot and killed Augusta Sci
fest because she would not marry him.
The steamer Sims was burned at Mem
phis the other day. A passenger named
Bunch from Illinois, was burned to death.
Six of the Indians on the San Carlo
reservation in Arizona have surrendered,
and are now under guard awaiting trial.
Judge Barrett OF New York has decided
/ that boycotting of non-union laborer by
labor organization is punishable under
the law against conspiracy.
Col. K. f. Lowe, managing editor OF the
/ Galveston, Texas, News has been arrested
for violating the sunday law, by employ
ng printers and publishing a paper.
The decision in the case OF Jake Sharp,
the great New York boodler, has been
sustained by the supreme court. Sharp
was taken to Sing Sing on tho Goth ult.
The vacancy on the supreme bench
caused by the death of Justice Woods will
not lie filed until after the Presidents re
turn from his western and southern trip.
The Lincoln Aeb., Fire Insurance com
pany has failed after one year business.
| The loss TO stockholders, 1t is said, will
reach 10000. A receiver will be ap-
pointed.
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Allen Of Sand witch, H., died of consumption
in Joliet prison few days ago. Another
man has been imprisoned for the crime,
but Young confessed he was the guilty
| person.
The verdict OF the coroner's jury, who
/ had been sitting on the bodies of persons
killed in the Dubuque, Iowa. train wreck,
censures the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
! Paul road and Assistant Train Dispatcher
| Rogers.
! State Attorney Grinnel OF Chicago
claims that Inspector Bonfeld is in New
York for the pupose of securing Herr
/ Most that he may be placed on trial in
/ Chicago.
Discriminating duties between Cuba.
! Porto Rico and the Philippines and all
/ other countries belonging to the crown OF
! Spain and the United States have been
suspended
In the great yacht race between the
! Scotch Thistle and the American sloop
! Volunteer, on the 9th Of September, the
1 Yankee sloop won in fine style. The dis
lance was IS miles.
A frightful accident occurred on the
Mobile q Ohio road near Jackson, Tenn.
the other morning. 4 passenger train
made a plunge over the trestle, and the
coaches were hurled distance of 30 feet.
/ over 80 persons were injured, but no
/ fatalities are reported.
THE interstate commerce commission
/ has submitted to the secretary of the in
terror its estimates for the next fiscal
/ year. they are as follows Salaries Of
/ commissioners, $1,000; salary OF secreta-
ry. 81, 5000; all other necessary expenses,
/ SIS 600; total, 100000. The present APP
/ preparation is 100000.
Gen. Crooks report of the recent Ute
| uprising is an arraignment Of the whites
engaged in the trouble, showing that they
were the agitators in every instance. and
/ that the Indians only resisted to save the
! lives of the women and children and their
/ herds. The whites broke falth with the
/ Indians numerous times.
Articles were filed at Harrisburg Pa,
few days ego, consolidating the New
York, Chicago a 81. Louis and the Fort
/ Wayne q Illinois railways the new cor
/ poration to be known as the New York,
/ Chicago X ST Louis railroad company
/ Daniel W. Caldwell is president and the
/ capital stock is ) }0OoO,01J.
The suit of the United States VS.. the
American Bell Telephone company the
main purpose of which was to cancel two
patents granted TO Bell relating to the
act of transmitting speech by electricity
on the ground that they were obtained by
fraud, has been dismissed. The case will
now be appealed to the United States su
preme court.
The public debt statement issued Oct.
/ LIST shows the tot al interest-bearing debt
! to be 81, OBS, $50, OH, debt on which interest
has ceased since maturity, So, 924, @G1 debt
bearing no interest, sl,G16, l03 $50; total
deht less available cash items 81 200 1pi-